Unaccompanied minors offices in Melilla

The Immigration Office in Melilla

Menores extranjeros no acompañados: determinación de la edad, residencia y mayoría de edad is an authorisation, so it is decided at an Oficina de Extranjería under the Government Delegation — not at a police station. They are separate networks with separate appointment systems, and going to the wrong one is the most common wasted journey in Spanish immigration.

The ministry's page for Melilla does not name this procedure among the services it itemises for these offices. They are the province's Immigration Offices, which is where authorisations of this kind are decided, but ring ahead before travelling rather than relying on that.

• SEDE 1. Oficina de Extranjería en Melilla

  Melilla

  Address

  Paseo Alcalde Rafael Ginel, S/N, 52001 Melilla

  Phone

  952991261

  Opening hours

  Horario de invierno: Del 16 de septiembre al 15 de junio: de 9 a 17:30 horas de lunes a jueves y de 9 a 14 horas los viernes Horario de verano: Del 16 de junio al 15 de septiembre: de 8 a 15 horas.

  Also decides

  Employed work and residence permits, self-employed work and residence permits, posted worker permits, residence and work for research, work authorisations for existing residents, exemptions from the work permit requirement, return authorisations, short-stay extensions, non-lucrative residence, family reunification, arraigo, other exceptional-circumstances permits, long-term residence, EU long-term residence, student stay permits, changing from one permit type to another, residence permits for minors, reports on temporary travel by minors, cross-border worker permits, EU family member residence cards, expulsion and return proceedings, appeals, EU registration certificates, residence cards (TIE), NIE numbers

The offices, and what each one handles

What to take with you

Official fee

The residence procedure is started by the Immigration Office of its own motion, without an application from the minor

• Complete copy of a valid passport or travel documentRecognised as valid in Spain. Failing that, it can be replaced by a cédula de inscripción obtained under the Regulation.
• Proof of the protection service representative's authorityDocumenting that the individual acting in the procedure is competent to do so on the service's behalf.
• Proof of the guardianship relationshipEvidencing the guardianship, custody, provisional protection or care relationship between the minor and the protection service.
• On turning eighteen: proof of sufficient meansIncome above the individual monthly guaranteed income under the Minimum Vital Income law, or proof that support is assured within a public or private programme. A qualifying work contract may be presented instead.
• On turning eighteen: certification of participationFrom the protection entity, on the training and activities programmed to favour social integration — or reports evidencing integration into Spanish society.
• Report from the autonomous community or town hallRequired for an application made after the ordinary window and up to the day after turning twenty, and to certify continued presence and social integration.

The conditions, deadlines and what happens if you miss them

Other procedures handled in Melilla

• NIE in Melilla1 office — Melilla
• TIE card in Melilla1 office — Melilla
• EU registration in Melilla1 office — Melilla
• Invitation letter in Melilla1 office — Melilla
• Stay extension in Melilla1 office — Melilla
• Return authorisation in Melilla1 office — Melilla